The Road to Your Name Podcast

THE ROAD TO YOUR NAME / Yoha:te ne kahsen:na Episode 10 — Shayde Sandy:  Portraiture, and the Metrolinx Bus Wrap This episode was recorded in November 2025 EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this episode of The Road to Your Name, host Lisa VanEvery sits down with Shayde Sandy, a Haudenosaunee multidisciplinary artist from Six Nations of the Grand River who specializes in oil portraits. Shayde shares her journ...

Road to Your Name Season 8, Episode 9 Guest:  Steve Johnson — Vexed Instruments owner and Tattoo artist This episode was recorded in December 2025 EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this episode, Lisa talks with Steve Johnson (who goes by Steve Haven), owner of Vexed Instruments and a tattoo artist working out of Six Nations of the Grand River. Steve builds and repairs electric guitars and basses by hand, fro...

Road to Your Name Season 8, Episode 8 Guest:  Jesse Brant of Sapling & Flint — From Firefighter to Goldsmith/Slilversmith This episode was recorded in December 2025 EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this episode, Lisa visits with Jesse Brant, co-owner of Sapling & Flint, a jewelry business rooted in Six Nations of the Grand River. Jesse — known professionally as Yonenyà:kenht, meaning "transparent st...

Road to Your Name  Season 8, Episode 7 Guest:  Kelsey Powless - From Scroll Saw to Six Figures of Followers This episode was recorded in December 2025. EPISODE DESCRIPTION What does it take to walk away from a stable career to build something you actually love? For Kelsey Powless of Powless & Co., it started with a night market, a 3D sign she couldn't stop thinking about, and a Christmas prese...

Yoha:te ne kahsen:na / The Road to Your Name Season 8, Episode 6 Guest: Warren Hill, Professional Lacrosse Goaltender and Education Mentor This episode was recorded in November 2025 EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this episode of Yoha:te ne kahsen:na, The Road to Your Name, host Lisa VanEvery sits down with Warren Hill — professional lacrosse goaltender for the Halifax Thunderbirds and Student Mentor at th...

Road To Your Name Season 8, Episode 5 Guest:  Don Lynch, author and member of the Six Nations Genealogy Society and the Six Nations Library Board This episode was recorded in December 2025. It’s All in the Dash — Genealogy, Family Stories, and the Anderson Legacy with Don Lynch Episode Description In this episode, Lisa sits down with Don Lynch, a member of the Ohsweken Genealogical Society and cha...

Road To Your Name Season 8, Episode 4 This episode was recorded in November 2025. Guest:  Keris Hope Hill from Six Nations of the Grand River Keris returns to the podcast (Season 4, Episode 8) and shares with us about her acting career and budding singing career.  She starred in the films Rosie (2022), Little Bird (2023) and Youngblood (2025) and talks about beginning her singing career with her f...

Who Owns the Story? Copyright, Indigenous Knowledge, and AI with Dr. Jean Dryden Road to Your Name | Season 8, Episode 3 This episode was recorded in November 2025. Episode Description Copyright affects every creator — and yet most people, Indigenous or not, don’t fully understand how it works or when it protects them. In this episode, Lisa sits down with Dr. Jean Dryden, an internationally recogn...

Road To Your Name Podcast Season 8, Episode 2 Guest:  R.G. Miller (Gary) (Kanyen'keha:ka, Mohawk), artist and residential school survivor Note:  This episode contains content regarding residential school abuse.  Please make sure you have self-care supports in place for yourself should you need them. This episode was recorded in November 2025 at the Mohawk Institute Residential School Museum At the...

Road to Your Name | Dr. David Milward — Indigenous Over-Incarceration, Restorative Justice, and the Long Road to Reform This episode was recorded in October 2025.  Dr. Milward joins the podcast by telephone. EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this episode, Lisa speaks with Dr. David Milward, associate professor of law at the University of Victoria and a member of the Beardy's & Okemasis First Nation of Du...

Reading the Sky — A Return Visit with Samantha Doxtator This episode was recorded in June 2025 Road to Your Name | Season 7 / Episode 10 Episode Description Samantha Doxtator of the Oneida Nation at Oneida of the Thames returns to the Road to Your Name podcast for a conversation that reaches across the galaxy. Samantha is a Haudenosaunee astronomy researcher and presenter who travels to Indigenous...

Road to Your Name | Diane Boots — Lifting Their Minds: A Conversation on End-of-Life Doula Work This episode was recorded in April 2025 EPISODE DESCRIPTION What does it mean to be present for someone at the very end of their life — and what does our culture already know about death that we've forgotten how to practice? In this episode, Lisa speaks with Diane Boots, director of Iahki'nikónhkétskwas...

Road to Your Name | Special Episode: Live from the Six Nations Language Commission Symposium Indigenous Language Day 2025 This episode was recorded March 31, 2025.  It is Part 2. EPISODE DESCRIPTION Continuing this special on-location episode, Lisa takes the podcast to the Six Nations Language Commission's Indigenous Language Day symposium, where language keepers, teachers, and program coordinator...

Road to Your Name | Special Episode: Live from the Six Nations Language Commission Symposium Indigenous Language Day 2025 This episode was recorded March 31, 2025. EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this special on-location episode, Lisa takes the podcast to the Six Nations Language Commission's Indigenous Language Day symposium, where language keepers, teachers, and program coordinators from across Haudenosa...

The Road to Your Name Podcast This episode was recorded in March 2025.  This episode may include offensive language. Episode Notes: Tom Wilson - Creativity, Identity, and Reclaiming Mohawk Heritage Host: Lisa Van (Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan) Guest: Tom Wilson Episode: Season 7 Produced by: Aboriginal Legal Services Technical Assistance: Tru Seed Media Episode Overview This episode features acclaimed...

This episode was recorded in January 2025. The Road to Your Name Justice, Trust, and the Power of the Circle: A Conversation with Jaime Stephenson Episode Description Is law really black and white? Criminal defense lawyer Jaime Stephenson doesn't think so — and in this episode, she joins host Lisa to unpack what that means in practice. Jaime is a partner at Stephenson and Valeri, based in Hamilton...

Reclaiming the Narrative — Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel & Sean Carleton on When the Pine Needles Fall Road to Your Name | Season 7:  Episode 4 This episode was recorded in December 2024. Episode Description In this episode, Lisa sits down with two co-authors of a landmark new book: Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk), Turtle Clan, from Kanehsatà:ke — land defender, filmmaker, a...

This episode was recorded in November 2024. Episode Title: Nadya Kwandibens — Red Works, Indigenous Identity & the Art of Photography Show: The Road to Your Name Host: Lisa 🎧 Listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e7d02970 Episode Summary: In this episode, host Lisa sits down with Indigenous photographer and visual storyteller Nadya Kwandibens (Aniishinaabe, from the Animakee Wa Zhing #37 Firs...

This episode was recorded in November 2024. Yotakahron Jonathan — From the Rez to Seven Continents Road to Your Name | Season 7, Episode 2 Episode Description In this episode, Lisa is joined by Dr. Yotakahron Jonathan, a Mohawk Bear Clan physician from Six Nations of the Grand River. What unfolds is a deeply honest conversation about the long road to becoming a doctor — one marked by determination...

This episode was recorded in November 2024.  Maggie has graduated from the Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa program in May 2026. The Road to Your Name — Season 7, Episode 1 "She Has a Good Song": Maggie Yakorennio Powless-Lynes on Learning Kanien'kéha Episode Description What does it take to reclaim a language two generations after it was taken away? In this episode, host, Lisa, sits down with Maggie Yakoren...

This episode was recorded in February of 2024.  Kathy Neil was appointed the first Deputy Commissioner for Indigenous Corrections in May 2023. Episode Summary: In this powerful episode, host Lisa speaks with Kathy Neil, Métis from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, who has spent nearly three decades working in corrections and now serves as the first Deputy Commissioner for Indigenous Corrections with Co...

Episode Title: Serene Porter — Culture, Design & Indigenous Youth at the North American Indigenous Games Show: The Road to Your Name Host: Lisa VanEvery 🎧 Listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e961e8f1 Episode Summary: This episode was recorded in December 2023.  In this episode, Lisa sits down with Serene Porter—Wolf Clan, Mohawk Nation, at Six Nations of the Grand River—who served as the Di...

This episode was recorded in December 2023.  On this episode, we visit with writer Alicia Elliott from Six Nations of the Grand River.  We discuss her first work of fiction, And Then She Fell and some of the topics she addresses in her book such as mental illness, anxiety, motherhood and isolation.  Get a glimpse of the action inside her novel as Alicia reads from, And The She Fell.

This episode was recorded in November 2023.  Host, Lisa, and our guest, George, converse about learning and speaking Kanien'keha (Mohawk language) and the creativity involved in this descriptive language.  George shares about language as it relates to well being.  He talks about language revitalization and what that means for a community.  George tells us, it's okay to start your language journey...

This episode was recorded in October 2023.  We are joined on the podcast by Lacey Hill, singer-songwriter from the Oneida Nation and the wolf clan.  Lacey shares about creativity and healing through music.  She sings one of her songs she wrote dripping with "Indigenous Soul" that is surely "music to our ears." You can reach Lacey at laceyhillmusic.com She's also on Facebook and Instagram.